Hail, Comal
- When
- April 16, 6:42 PM CST to 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Comal County, Bracken
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 29.617, -98.333
Hail in Texas, April 16, 2002
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 16, 1:33 PM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 1:33 PM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 230 PM CDT MON APR 15 2002 UPPER DISTURBANCE CONTINUES NEWD...SWEEPING CLOUDS AND MOISTURE WITH IT. WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY POPS FOR TONIGHT AFTER ALL. FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS...WEAK DISTURBANCES CONTINUE TO SWING ACROSS SC TX IN SWLY WINDS ALOFT...BUT WITH LAYER RH BELOW 40 PCT AND PW BELOW 1 INCH...RAIN CHANCES ARE NIL. LOW CLOUDS REFORM WED NITE...WITH THE STANDARD CLEARING TO PARTLY CLOUDY THU AFTN. ALL THIS TIME...FLOW IN BOUNDARY LAYER WILL HAVE BEEN REPLENISHING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. BY FRI...LAYER RH WILL BE BACK OVER 50 PCT AND PW WILL BE OVER 1.5 INCHES. THATS ENOUGH FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS OR TSTMS FOR FRI AS THE NEXT DISTURBANCES PASS IN THE SWLY FLOW ALOFT. LOOKS LIKE THIS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE WEEKEND. NOT MUCH CHANGE IN TEMPS THRU THE PACKAGE. DRIER AIR WILL ALLOW SLIGHTLY COOLER MINS MOST SECTIONS ONIGHT...AND SLIGHTLY WARMER HIGHS ON WED. BY THU...WITH THE MOISTURE WILL RETURN...SC TX WILL RESUME MINS OF 60S TO NEAR 70 AND HIGHS IN THE 80S THRU THE REMAINDER OF THE PACKAGE. .EWX...NONE 09/18/DC PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 67/85/67/85/67 00001 DRT 64/91/67/90/68 00001 SAT 68/87/69/86/70 00001
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 16, 5:28 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
628 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM RANDOLPH AFB TX .75 INCH HAIL
04/16/02 BEXAR REPORTED BY
METAR
0605 PM 5 E CAMPBELLTON AT TX ROTATING WALL CLOUD
JCT I37 AND FM791 REPORTED BY LAW
04/16/02 ATASCOSA ENFORCEMENT
0612 PM I37 CAMPBELLTON CUTOFF TX TWO ROTATING WALL CLOUDS
04/16/02 ATASCOSA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
DCLocal storm report, Apr 16, 5:46 PM CST, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
646 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0628 PM CAMPBELLTON TX ROTATING WALL CLOUD
JCT I37 AND FM1099 REPORTED BY LAW
04/16/02 WILSON ENFORCEMENT
DCLocal storm report, Apr 16, 5:47 PM CST, 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
647 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0628 PM CAMPBELLTON TX ROTATING WALL CLOUD
JCT I37 AND FM1099 REPORTED BY LAW
04/16/02 ATASCOSA ENFORCEMENT
DCLocal storm report, Apr 16, 5:59 PM CST, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
659 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0652 PM VANCE JACKSON AND LOOP 410
SAN ANTONIO TX .75 INCH HAIL
04/16/02 BEXAR REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
DCLocal storm report, Apr 16, 6:11 PM CST, 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
711 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0659 PM SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT TX .75 INCH HAIL
04/16/02 BEXAR REPORTED BY
METAR
DCLocal storm report, Apr 16, 6:40 PM CST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
740 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM VANCE JACKSON AND LOOP 410
SAN ANTONIO TX ROTATING CLOUD
04/16/02 BEXAR REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
DCThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Texas, April 16 to 17, 2002
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in Kansas, April 16, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, April 16, 2002
- Heat in Georgia, April 16 to 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, April 16, 2002
- Wildfire in North Dakota, April 16, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, April 16, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, April 16, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002
More
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2002
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5285505.